After a season of tribal, full band, full stage concert and production Ben was ready for something completely different: enter the first volume of Chair and Microphone. This series is formed from the same clay that molded First, Second, and Third Circle but the musical environment is different...reduced...minimal.
We have a great admiration for songwriters who can hold our imagination just with words and images--without the help of a full band. Chair and Microphone is an album full of raw conversations with God, shot from the Psalms, but with only a solo voice and one guitar...one take...one time to record it...everything from that one moment is here...
One instrument and one voice. Recorded ‘in one pass’ this recording bleeds out the heart of Ben Pasley in conversation with God. There is compliment and complaint, loving anthem and stiff argument–it is both polite and brutal. With a musical history in southern rock, folk, and world music, he blends a simple guitar style with a masterful collection of emotion set to lyric. This new Chair and Microphone series of albums will always feature one performer’s voice and one accompanying instrument played ‘live’ in a raw, unplugged fashion. This is the singer/songwriter genre in its most vulnerable form.
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